yeah, but Redneck,'the media' is everybody's favourite whipping boy.

Sure, it's every Arts undergraduate's choice of villain, but c'mon, blaming the media is so broad it's nothing more than empty rhetoric.

Plus, I think it's just evading responsibility for our actions.
You said it yourself - it's about the advertisers, and yes, they're pandering to whatever will sell their product.

The solution isn't to clamp down on them, though I take your point about things like child porn and so on - but that's an extreme example, and the implications of censorship are far worse.

So sure, it's easy to say the media are at fault, but it's much harder to accept responsibility for the collective lowest common denominator. That's where the problem is.

As for Corey, he's no more than a dopey teenager who may or may not wise up someday. He's not worth all this fuss and he's hardly a criminal mastermind. Honestly, I'm more embarrassed for the lynch mob that's out to crucify him, than I am for his stupidity.

He has an excuse. He's a dumb sixteen year old. What has the indignant posse got to say for itself?

Redneck - TRTL has kindly covered most of the important points.

The fact is that my child is going to be exposed to plenty of influences in his life, that I would prefer not be the case. It is my job as a parent to bring him up well enough to be able to make up his own mind when he is placed in such a situation.

As TRTL rightly pointed out, you raised the extreme case, which of course no one thinks should be shown on television. What that has to do with coverage of a newsworthy story about an urban disturbance (defined as one that people will tune in to), I will never know.

I have witnessed some dreadful scenes on the internet in the last decade, without doubt the worst of which were beheadings from Iraq. I wanted to see just how inhuman some of these monsters who kill in the name of "god" can be. Who are you to say I should not have that right?
The memory will stay with me forever and I will do whatever I can to ensure that religious extremism never has the power in this country that it does there.

Blaming "the media" is a weak copout. Teaching your children to be discerning consumers of it is the ONLY answer because if someone wants to find something on the net, they will.

"A brief aside: I reject the suggestion that living in a particular suburb or geographical location “corrupts” an individual and/or deprives them of morals." – it does not corrupt, it ESTAVLISHES particular stereotypes, of which fulfilling a "have fun" motto with drinking and gratifying the sexual urges very much constituting even native-speaking underage females' behaviour, is the most.

What is wrong with Corey? Nothing. None saw him personally damaging neighbours property.

No blame for his “spermatostress” if mature media professionals are ready, willing and capable to energetically spread grass-urinating info of young adult night out as hot news worldwide.

In a place of inherited opportunities Corey Worthington did well due a white unprivileged young male possibilities.